The company Opera Software announced that Opera Mini, the most popular mobile browser in the world, reached a milestone: according to January 2010 the number of active users exceeded 50 million. Total annual number of browsers has increased by 150% - from 20 million in January 2009 to 50 million in January 2010. The figures take into account not only those who have downloaded Opera Mini, but users are actively working with a browser on the Internet.

Recall that the Opera Mini - small in size and easy to use browser that runs on most mobile phones and server technology uses data compression. With this technology, traffic, loaded on phones users, compressed to 90% of the original volume, increasing the speed of the web and reducing the cost of mobile Internet.